Motivational Quotes

Belief

The man who believes he can do something is probably right, and so is the man who believes he can t. Anonymous I don't think of myself as a poor deprived ghetto girl who made good. I think of myself as someone who from an early age knew I was responsible for myself, and I had to make good.

- Winfrey, Oprah

Best Quotes about Belief

When the intensity of emotional conviction subsides, a man who is in the habit of reasoning will search for logical grounds in favor of the belief which he finds in himself.

Russell, Bertrand

I would rather have a mind opened by wonder than one closed by belief.

Gerry Spence

Belief gets in the way of learning.

Heinlein, Robert

Man is what he believes.

Anton Chekhov

You must understand that seeing is believing, but also know that believing is seeing.

Waitley, Denis

Unless you believe, you will not understand.

Saint Augustine

You've got to be success minded. You've got to feel that things are coming your way when you're out selling; otherwise, you won't be able to sell anything.

Carlson, Curtis

Believe that life is worth living, and your belief will help create the fact.

James, William

It isn't enough to talk about peace. One must believe in it. And it isn't enough to believe in it. One must work at it.

Roosevelt, Eleanor

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Conviction never so excellent, is worthless until it coverts itself into conduct.

Carlyle, Thomas

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I can believe anything, provided that it is quite incredible.

Oscar Wilde

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What we wish, we readily believe, and what we ourselves think, we imagine others think also.

Caesar, Julius

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Confronted with the impossibility of remaining faithful to one's beliefs, and the equal impossibility of becoming free of them, one can be driven to the most inhuman excesses.

Baldwin, James

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You are always a valuable, worthwhile human being -- not because anybody says so, not because you're successful, not because you make a lot of money -- but because you decide to believe it and for no other reason.

Dyer, Wayne

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I knew my trainer believed in me and I couldn't let Him down.

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The nobility of a human being is strictly independent of that of his convictions.

Rostand, Jean

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If you do not believe in yourself... chances are nobody else will.

18.

Every person is the creation of himself, the image of his own thinking and believing. As individuals think and believe, so they are.

Bristol, Claude M.

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What a person believes is not as important as how a person believes.

Virkkala, Timothy

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If you believe you can, you probably can. If you believe you won t, you most assuredly won t. Belief is the ignition switch that gets you off the launching pad.

Waitley, Denis

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I never cease being dumbfounded by the unbelievable things people believe.

Leo Rosten

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Oh, what a tangled web we weave when first we practice to believe.

Laurence J. Peter

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Those who say it can't be done are usually interrupted by others doing it.

Barker, Joel A.

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In the province of the mind, what one believes to be true either is true or becomes true.

John Lilly

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No iron chain, or outward force of any kind, can ever compel the soul of a person to believe or to disbelieve.

Carlyle, Thomas

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Drugs are not always necessary, but belief in recovery always is.

Cousins, Norman

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Belief is a moral act for which the believer is to be held responsible.

Hodges, H. A.

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Believing: it means believing in our own lies. And I can say that I am grateful that I got this lesson very early.

Grass, Gunther

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If you don't change your beliefs, your life will be like this forever. Is that good news?

Anthony, Dr. Robert

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You must see first before you can believe.

Holliwell, Raymond

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Of what worth are convictions that bring not suffering?

Saint-Exupery, Antoine De

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Remember that what you believe will depend very much on what you are.

Noah Porter

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Remind yourself regularly that you are better than you think you are. Successful people are not superhuman. Success does not require a super-intellect. Nor is there anything mystical about success. And success doesn't based on luck. Successful people are just ordinary folks who have developed belief in themselves and what they do. Never -- yes, never -- sell yourself short.

Schwartz, David J.

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Left to themselves, things tend to go from bad to worse. Murphy's First Corollary If you tell the boss you were late for work because you had a flat tire, the next morning you will have a flat tire.

Cannon's Law

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Oh how sweet it is to hear one's own convictions from another's lips.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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Everything is possible for him who believes.

Bible

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If we let ourselves believe that man began with divine grace, that he forfeited this by sin, and that he can be redeemed only by divine grace through the crucified Christ, then we shall find peace of mind never granted to philosophers. He who cannot believe is cursed, for he reveals by his unbelief that God has not chosen to give him grace.

Pascal, Blaise

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It doesn't matter how many say it cannot be done or how many people have tried it before; it's important to realize that whatever you're doing, it's your first attempt at it.

Amos, Wally

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Belief creates the actual fact.

James, William

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With most people disbelief in a thing is founded on a blind belief in some other thing.

Lichtenberg, Georg C.

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Beware of assumptions! Whatever you assume to be possible -- or impossible will have a tendency to become real for you.

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Some people will believe anything if you whisper it to them.

Nizer, Louis

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We are all captives of the picture in our head -- our belief that the world we have experienced is the world that really exists.

Lippmann, Walter

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Men willingly believe what they wish.

Julius Caesar

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The practical effect of a belief is the real test of its soundness.

Froude, James A.

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Devout believers are safeguarded in a high degree against the risk of certain neurotic illnesses; their acceptance of the universal neurosis spares them the task of constructing a personal one.

Freud, Sigmund

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To be a champ, you have to believe in yourself when nobody else will.

Robinson, Sugar Ray

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As a first approximation, I define belief not as the object of believing (a dogma, a program, etc.) but as the subject's investment in a proposition, the act of saying it and considering it as true.

Certeau, Michel De

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One can't believe impossible things. I dare say you haven't had much practice, said the Queen. When I was your age, I always did it for half-an-hour a day. Why, sometimes I've believed as many as six impossible things before breakfast.

Carroll, Lewis

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The old believe everything; the middle aged suspect everything, and the young know everything.

Wilde, Oscar